You can't run vlc? What kind of devices do you have?
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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Could be a barebones TV with a usb port? Some do have media players
A VCR and 26" CRT, why?
This is the way.
Lol ikr.
What devices can't run VLC? thought it was one of those things that even run on a toaster
Some operating systems are restrictive about what APIs they give to applications.
VLC on xbox is so horrible, it doesn't deserve the VLC name, for an example.
Try mpv then ;-)
mpv can render video everywhere, even inside a fucking text terminal! Use --vo=tct argument to render the video into text art. Heck, if you're using Xorg it can even render into another app window!
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/vo.rst
MPV deserves its own community. It's the only player on windows that can handle DV content. Though the default offering is very minimal and difficult to use. There are some awesome gui projects though
At least on android TV, the latest release candidate for Kodi also finally properly supports DV. So I would expect the same thing to be the case for the windows version
Windows and DV have a very tumultuous relationship. Actually Windows has terrible relationships with lots of proprietary codecs like dv, atmos, dts:x. So I would not be surprised at all if it still wasn't supported on kodi on windows. I dislike Kodi enough that I won't try, since MPV serves my purposes perfectly fine if I'm watching from my windows machine. For everything else I have appletx/roku that support DV
I'm curious, what do you dislike about Kodi? Is it just that you want a light player to use with mouse and keyboard while sitting at your desk?
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I love this player, wish it was more popular. They should make the installation a bit simpler on Windows, it's a bit weird compared to most programs people download
(which is far superior to vlc in graphical fidelity out-of-the-box)
Is it because it's a work device ? Because except if you're not the admin of your machine, VLC will run on any potato.
And even if you can't install it on a locked-down device, there's a portable version, too. Install on any removable media (from another machine, to be fair) and it will run from USB without installation.
So should I run it directly on the potato or run the portable version from a thumb drive inserted into the potato?
the fact bros pirates on work device says alot
Are you running on a work device? The USB method is only really for work devices, otherwise get vlc
Selfhosting an *arr stack with Plex/Jellyfin is the way.
There's also Tdarr for automatic transcoding of videos right after they get downloaded, haven't tried it yet so can't comment.
Took me years to finally get around to it and it's phenomenal.
I just did it today! Not done with it, but seems nice so far
With radarr, it's been exciting turning on my TV and seeing a movie I added months ago has released.
Same with TV episodes, I get to experience my Plex library in a similar way to the rest of my users.
Codec inconsistency? Try resolution inconsistency. I keep finding some that have a weird mixture of 720p and 1080p resolutions. Drives me insane.
I hope this is sarcasm.
Did you try to install ffmpeg and run: „ffmpeg -i someFile.fileextension -c:a libmp3lame -c:v libx264 -f mp4 outFile.mp4“ to repair the file. Then you should be able to play it on every device. On windows you can install ffmpeg with winget and on linux for example with apt or on macos with brew.
I trying to think which devices can't run VLC and all I've come up with are a pager and a Blackberry. Does anyone have any idea what he's talking about?
presumably a toaster from the potato age
Nintendo 3DS
Codec inconsistency is annoying yeah. You need a better tracker
I'd look into buying a cheap Firesticks you can jailbreak if nothing else.
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